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Gave a guest lecture, 鈥淭he Pleasure of Translating Catherine Malabou鈥, at S茅minaire Climas Intersections, Universit茅 de Bordeaux Montaigne, France, on 22 October 2021


Received a grant from the Winterthur Museum Garden and Library for a Maker-Creator Fellowship to undertake research in the American furniture collection and in the papers of Jennie Alexander, a historically important trans-identified chairmaker, as part of her ongoing project, To Understand a Tree.


New works from Gina Siepel's ongoing project "To Understand a Tree" were included in the group exhibition "Becoming Trees," curated by Fritz Horstman at the Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord MA, on view until May 8, 2022.


Received a full scholarship from The Chairmaker's Toolbox, an organization dedicated to diversifying the craft of greenwood chairmaking to include makers from under-represented groups in the field, to participate in an upcoming workshop on building the iconic Jennie Alexander chair.


Co-led , a three-week interdisciplinary arts session with collaborator Sara Smith at Mildred鈥檚 Lane, an artist residency and project site in Beach Lake, PA, involving multi-modal investigations of the forest, human anatomy, and vernacular American furniture design.


Project, "Emma's Walk," commemorating the life of Emma Goldman, is included in a group exhibition titled Skowhegan Artists at the Maine Jewish Museum.

 


Was an invited online speaker at The Center for Art in Wood (Philadelphia, PA), where she gave a lecture entitled 鈥淭o Understand a Tree, A Work in Process,鈥 on a long-term project underway at the Smith College Macleish Field Station. Gina is also exhibiting in AREA CODE Art Fair (Boston MA), the first art fair featuring contemporary artists with ties to New England. 


Solo exhibition "New World Reconsidered," at the Mazmanian Gallery at Framingham State University, Framingham MA. The show is open from Feb 24 - March 19, 2020 with a reception and artist lecture on March 4.


Gave a public lecture on recent work as an invited visiting artist in the "Local Ecologies" exhibition, jointly curated and sponsored by UMass Dartmouth, UMass Boston and UMass Lowell. Siepel is also serving as a visiting artist in the Department of Sculpture at the Maine College of Art. (2019)


Singer, Kate. (2023). 鈥淔rom It鈥檚 the End of the World as We Know it and I Feel Queer: Mary Shelley, Queer Affect, and Shapeshifting Through The Last Man.鈥 In Chris Washington, Editor, The Last Man: A Norton Critical Edition. W. W. Norton.